EP0500293 - Particle detection method and apparatus [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 13.03.1998 Database last updated on 09.09.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 07.12.2007 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state Updated state(s): FR | published on 09.01.2008 [2008/02] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states INSPEX, Inc. 47 Manning Road, P.O. Box 69 Billerica Massachusetts 01865 / US | [N/P] |
Former [1992/35] | For all designated states INSPEX, Inc. 47 Manning Road, P.O. Box 69 Billerica, Massachusetts 01865 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Allemand, Charly Dany 3 Wamasquid Place Nantucket, Massachusetts 02554 / US | [1992/35] | Representative(s) | Bayliss, Geoffrey Cyril, et al BOULT WADE TENNANT Verulam Gardens 70 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8BT / GB | [N/P] |
Former [1996/39] | Bayliss, Geoffrey Cyril, et al BOULT, WADE & TENNANT 27 Furnival Street London EC4A 1PQ / GB | ||
Former [1992/35] | Shackleton, Nicola, et al Boult, Wade & Tennant 27 Furnival Street London EC4A 1PQ / GB | Application number, filing date | 92301275.1 | 17.02.1992 | [1992/35] | Priority number, date | US19910657207 | 19.02.1991 Original published format: US 657207 | [1992/35] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0500293 | Date: | 26.08.1992 | Language: | EN | [1992/35] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0500293 | Date: | 20.01.1993 | Language: | EN | [1993/03] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0500293 | Date: | 07.05.1997 | Language: | EN | [1997/19] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 27.11.1992 | Classification | IPC: | G01N21/88, G01N21/47 | [1993/03] | CPC: |
G01N21/9501 (EP,US);
G01N21/94 (EP,US);
G01N2021/4707 (EP,US);
G01N2021/4742 (EP,US)
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Former IPC [1992/35] | G01N21/47 | Designated contracting states | AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FR, GB, GR, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE [1992/35] | Title | German: | Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Nachweis von Teilchen | [1992/35] | English: | Particle detection method and apparatus | [1992/35] | French: | Procédé et appareil de détection des particules | [1992/35] | Examination procedure | 14.07.1993 | Examination requested [1993/36] | 16.08.1995 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 18.12.1995 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 27.03.1996 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 12.08.1996 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 20.12.1996 | Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: fee for grant / fee for printing not paid in time | 14.01.1997 | Fee for grant paid | 14.01.1997 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 10.02.1998 | No opposition filed within time limit [1998/18] | Request for further processing for: | 14.01.1997 | Request for further processing filed | 14.01.1997 | Full payment received (date of receipt of payment) Request granted | 29.01.1997 | Decision despatched | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 13.12.1993 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 19.12.1994 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 11.12.1995 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 21.02.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 06 |
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Former [1998/02] | AT | 07.05.1997 | Documents cited: | Search | [Y]JP62124447 ; | [A]US4669875 (SHIBA MASATAKA [JP], et al); | [A]US4812664 (BORDEN PETER G [US]); | [XD]US4898471 (VAUGHT JOHN L [US], et al); | [A]EP0398781 (EASTMAN KODAK CO [US]) | [Y] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN vol. 11, no. 340 (P-634)7 November 1987 & JP-A-62 124 447 ( CANON INC ) 5 June 1987, & JP62124447 A 19870605 |